Italian

Proper noun

Fano ?

1. A coastal town in the Pesaro e Urbino province of Marche, Italy
2. A habitational surname derived from the above town or others of a similar name

Derived terms

• fanese

English

Noun

fano ‎(plural fanos)

1. A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.

References

• 1999: A. N. Parshin, Igorʹ Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties

  Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties.

• 2007: Alessio Corti, Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds

  Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated.

Latin

Noun

fānō

1. dative singular of fānum
2. ablative singular of fānum

References

• fano in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FANO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fano in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fanô, whence also Old English fana, Old Norse fani

Noun

fano ?

1. flag

Descendants

• German: Fahne
• Yiddish: פֿאָן ‎(fon)